REACTION: PIRATES HIT FIFTY TO STORM INTO FINAL

Poole backed up their sixty-point home score with a further fifty points in the second leg of the play-off semi-final to emphatically secure their place in the final and a clash against the side they beat in the knockout cup semi-finals, the Leicester Lions.
 

The determined Pirates never let up as Glasgow tried to claw themselves back into the tie, helped by a controversial opening heat that saw Ben Cook harshly and unfairly disqualified when Ben Basso fell off on the fourth turn. But the Pirates kept pace after conceding a 5-1 in heat two and by heat eight left the home side needing 'snookers' .
 Poole had squared the meeting with a 4-2 in heat seven, a race marred by a nasty crash involving Tom Brennan, who fell in the path of his GB team mate Drew Kemp. 
Whilst Kemp was able to continue the meeting, and prove to be the Pirates match-winner in heat fourteen as the Pirates became the first visiting side to win at Ashfield this season, Brennan was forced to sit out the re-run as the cause of the stoppage, and then was withdrawn under medical advice before his next scheduled ride.
Dan Ford had nothing but praise for his septet, and jubilantly said at the end of the meeting "the lads came here knowing that they needed a pressure-free thirty one points but what we saw instead was a phenomenal performance. They were still reeling a bit from the events of a week ago but those emotions were stoked even more when inexplicably Ben Cook was disqualified from the opening heat when it was clear for everyone to see that Basso fell on his own accord. But what I think is now so obvious with this set of riders is that when the chips are down and things go against them they can raise their game to an incredible standard and so to be returning home from Scotland for the second week in a row on a Sunday, this time with mission accomplished they can all justifiably feel very proud indeed. We are now in all three finals, which is where we wanted to be and now just looking to finish the job in all three of them.

GLASGOW 39 - Ben Basso 6+1  Craig Cook 9  Broc Nicol 3+1  Tom Brennan 3+1  Paul Starke 10+1  Connor Bailey 8+1  .  POOLE 50 - Danny King 8+2  Ben Cook 9+1  Steve Worrall 11+2  Drew Kemp 6  Richard Lawson 9  Zach Cook 7+2  Nathan Ablitt 0  .